Sentences with phrase «of unreliable results»

Otherwise there is the risk of unreliable results and statistical uncertainty.

Not exact matches

And as a result of the unreliable battery life, for the first time in the history of Apple's MacBook line, Consumer Reports declined to give the 2016 models a rating of «recommended.»

Scientific materialism usually holds that primary qualities are the concretely real foundation of things and that secondary qualities are the frothy result of our projecting elements of unreliable subjectivity onto them.

Pre-season results are notoriously unreliable predictors of upcoming league play.

In areas where the patient's choice has a profound effect on outcome, random comparisons eliminating choice will give unreliable estimates of true differences.14 Therefore, in the Netherlands, where choosing between home or hospital birth is an integral feature of the system, randomised controlled trials between home birth and hospital birth would not produce generalisable results even if it were possible to mount such trials.

For instance, in their statement two days after the election and before a winner was pronounced, the Carter Centre acknowledged that the electronic transmission of results from the polling stations to the 290 constituency centres «proved unreliable.»

He named the challenges militating against cocoa production in the country as the unreliable supply of inputs to farmers as a direct result of the «free» input policy adopted by the government, new brands of chemical inputs released to cocoa farmers in Ghana without adequate trials and research by designated institutions, low producer prices paid to farmers and the politicisation of the mass spraying and fertiliser distribution programme.

And for some types of cancers, frozen section interpretation can be difficult, yielding unreliable results in as many as 10 to 20 percent of cases.

Contrary to the proclamations of many scientists, unreliable medical study results do not disappear with large, randomized controlled trials, in which subjects are randomly assigned to a treatment or placebo group.

It's a multimillion - dollar business, which is centered on selling substandard tests with unreliable results, and we feel this needs to change,» Karin Weyer, coordinator of TB Diagnostics and Laboratory Strengthening for WHO's Stop TB Department, said at the press conference.

Michael Lewis of Cardiff University in the UK came to this conclusion while investigating why results from police line - ups are so unreliable.

Their studies and observations of Ichthyosaurus communis and I. intermedius resulted in confusion with the species, with many skeletons identified on unreliable grounds.

Professor Tony Burgess, head of Structural Biology at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, is jointly leading the bank and said the use of organoids would be a step change from current drug testing techniques, which take eight months to yield results that are unreliable.

To its credit, Duke University formally investigated the research staff employee, Erin Potts - Kant, suspected of producing fraudulent research results, and found that over a dozen research publications involving her with coauthors, including the Principal Investigator, Prof. William M. Foster (Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, at the Department of Medicine) were retracted or «corrected»; some published data was admitted to be unreliable.

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Choosing unreliable website not only results in wastage of time but hard earned money also.

Conversely, this episode's mix of unsatisfying third - person shooting, an unreliable cover system, and clumsy melee attacks result in a frustrating mess of mechanics.

Sonic Forces» sense of control is erratic and unreliable, resulting in a wealth of unintentional deaths and bizarre collisions with environmental hazards.

Before going any further, before my bias toward the Kiwi's new movie renders me a totally unreliable resource, I should point out that this is the same director who made Vertical Limit, the face - palming result of woefully apparent and inadequate research that turned the rock climbing community into the laughingstock of audiences everywhere.

They argue that it puts too much pressure on the disabled child, generates unreliable performance numbers, wastes resources that would be better spent on services for youngsters, and is unnecessary in light of changes to federal law as a result of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

Experts have labelled the new system as «unreliable» and state that the number of pupils who will be given unreliable results in their English GCSE is set to rise from 30 per cent to 45 per cent.

Understand that using the line of best fit to predict results outside the given data range is unreliable, as is using the line of best fit to predict results inside the data range if the correlation is weak.

Through the blundering and unreliable economic system resulting in the World's economic recession these past years — caused by the unsavory role played by the banks — it has also become blatantly obvious that this way of planning one's life is definitely not going to work for the young generation.

There are basically no consequences for principals who disregard the results of value - added assessments in making decisions about employees, and they're more likely to disregard those results if they consider value - added assessment an unreliable analytical technique.

Many of us know that this was often done to counter the unreliable and invalid results often yielded via the «objective» test - based sides of things that the NCTQ continues to advance.

Teaching unions are opposed to the Sats tests and some boycotted them three years ago, saying that they forced teachers to «teach to the test», marking was unreliable and the results were too «high - stakes» because of the league tables.

«We have invalid test scores going into an unreliable formula, which equals a bad result,» the president of the United Federation of Teachers, Michael Mulgrew, said at the time.

What makes Eden's results even less - reliable is the fact that he didn't just simply measure the raw results from the surveys over the five - year period (2011 - 2012 to 2015 - 2016) being measured, which is the most - reliable way of analyzing what is already unreliable data.

For now, the state will continue the problematic strategy of giving teachers «value added measurement» (VAM) scores based on their students» test results — despite widespread evidence that VAM scores are both unreliable and unfair.

What the profession will not accept is the unreliable inconsistency of Ofsted and the blight it puts on their working lives and the corrosive effect on their reputation as the result of a poor inspection.

India released the Sakshaat tablet with the astounding price tag of $ 35 in order to bring digital textbooks and educational technology to its schools located in lower socioeconomic areas, but with unreliable internet access in those outlying areas and local schools that often can't afford instructors, it may not have the same positive results as an initiative of this kind in South Korea.

Many people are categorized as bad credit borrowers, but while this once occurred as a result of poor money management and unreliable borrowing, the impact of the recent economic crisis has seen many honest borrowers slip down the credit rating table.

One of our Numbers Guys had done a sensitivity study showing that the results of the conventional - methodology studies are highly unreliable.

Investors who regularly make investment decisions based on raw short - term returns will generally sabotage their long - term investment results, because short - term returns are unreliable (and often contrary) indicators of subsequent performance.

It should be noted that tests on kittens under 6 months of age frequently result in false positive results and should be deemed unreliable.

However, visibility of award space can be unreliable, and if you get no results you should confirm with another website before giving up.

Nevertheless, it's an unwieldly, clunky experience that frequently proves too frustrating to play as a result of its awkward controls and unreliable weapon aiming system.

As a result of fans expressing concern over unreliable internet connections, Microsoft has decided that games from the Xbox Games Pass library will be downloaded to your console for a «native, full - fidelity gaming experience.»

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change

Since we began in December 2012, we have added to our concerns the economic and social harm caused by rocketing power prices and unreliable power supplies, the product of heavily subsidised and intermittent wind power: the results that have played out in Australia's wind power capital, South Australia, will cripple that State at an economic and social level for decades to come.

Despite Blomqvist et al.'s reservations, Footprint results show that: (1) most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity; (2) humanity is at or beyond global carrying capacity for key categories of consumption, particularly agriculture (factoring in soil loss and ecosystem degradation would reveal additional deficits); (3) global carbon waste sinks are overflowing; and (4) the aggregate metabolism of the human economy exceeds the regenerative capacity of the ecosphere (and the ratio is increasing).

The poster child for this is the State of South Australia, which has now suffered from five state electricity blackouts in the last six months as a result of closing down dependable fossil fuel generating stations in favor of unreliable «renewable» sources.

I recommend that the Trump Administration issue the Draft Report with an added section explaining how useless and biased the rest of the Draft Report is because it primarily relies on meaningless model results and unreliable surface temperature data.

Mandating rapid, massive deployment of these technologies will result in high cost, disputes over land use, and unreliable electricity, leading to a public backlash.

I pray Mrs Merkel continues with this policy, so that the rest of the world will see what an appallingly mess results from installing these unreliable electricity sources onto a grid system.

Thankfully this experiment is being done in Germany -LSB-...] so that the rest of the world will see what an appallingly mess results from installing these unreliable electricity sources onto a grid system.

The concerns are based on what MIGHT happen as a result of the changes in temperature and we have very unreliable information on that.

THE proliferation of renewables unreliables over the past decade has not, and will not, result in statistically significant reductions in global carbon dioxide emissions.

The passing of the Green Energy Act (GEA) in 2009 resulted in adding intermittent and unreliable renewable energy that is unresponsive to demand (wind power is produced out - of - phase with demand in Ontario).

there was no way of knowing whether it was less or more variable than the SSN cycle, I think it showed that their results were highly unreliable.